Synodic month length 29.66 days

Length of current 193 lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 48 minutes. It is 1 hour and 36 minutes shorter than next lunation 194 length.

Lunation length longer than mean

Length of current synodic month is 3 hours and 4 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 3 hours and 59 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.

Lunar orbit position on 15 August 2015 Saturday 12:00 UTC

True anomaly ∠144.1°

This New Moon true anomaly is ∠144.1°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠169.3°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).

Moon before apogee

13 days after point of perigee on 2 August 2015 at 10:11 in ♓ Pisces. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 2 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 18 August 2015 at 02:33 in ♎ Libra.

Distance to Moon 403 017 km

Moon before ascending node

11 days after its descending node on 4 August 2015 at 02:53 in ♈ Aries, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 2 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 17 August 2015 at 23:05 in ♍ Virgo.

Draconic month

Moon after northern standstill

5 days after previous North standstill on 10 August 2015 at 11:11 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠18.288°. Next 9 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-18.206° in the next southern standstill on 25 August 2015 at 03:44 in ♐ Sagittarius.